Bookish Kas

Publishing Date  - 7th June 2022 Author  - Lindsay MacMillan Genre  -  Romance Trigger Warning  -  Depression, Toxic Relationship  Ratings  -  ⭐️⭐️ | Goodreads | Barnes and Nobles |  ✦ﾟ━━━━━━━・❦・━━━━━━━ﾟ✦    SYNOPSIS The young investment banker is tired of being single in New York City. Deep into a quarter-life crisis, she's overwhelmed by all the external pressure to rise the corporate and romantic ladders at the same time. Feeling the biological clock ticking, she vows to close the deal on locking in a husband before her 30th birthday. The Manhattan dating scene has as many ups and downs as the stock market and leaves Rae exhausted from late nights formatting spreadsheets at the office, followed by even later nights reciting her resume to strangers at over-crowded bars. She considers throwing in the towel, but her friends come to the rescue, continually boosting her up with ice cream and cheap wine that they share in their si...

Author  - Kerri Maniscalco Genre - Fantasy, Romance Trigger Warning - Death, Gore, Violence Ratings - Kingdom of the Wicked - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️                   Kingdom of the Cursed - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️  ✦ﾟ━━━━━━━・❦・━━━━━━━ﾟ✦   SYNOPSIS Two sisters. One brutal murder. A quest for vengeance that will unleash Hell itself… And an intoxicating romance. Emilia and her twin sister Vittoria are streghe – witches who live secretly among humans, avoiding notice and persecution. One night, Vittoria misses dinner service at the family’s renowned Sicilian restaurant. Emilia soon finds the body of her beloved twin…desecrated beyond belief. Devastated, Emilia sets out to find her sister’s killer and to seek vengeance at any cost-even if it means using dark magic that’s been long forbidden. Then Emilia meets Wrath, one of the Wicked-princes of Hell she has been warned against in tales since she was a child. Wrath claims to be on Emilia’s side, tasked by ...

The Hating Game is a book I loved so much when I read it. The book was enemies to lovers, Grumpy x  Sunshine, forced proximity, how can I not like it. Josh and Lucy's chemistry was just so explosive and I absolutely wanted to read more of it and I was so excited for the movie but once again people prove that book to movie adaptations are not it.  The Hating Game trailer dropped a while ago and I needed a lot of time to process that trailer. I've embedded the video here but I am also going to link the trailer at the end so you can also check it out.    If we talk about casting Lucy Hale as Lucy was excellent casting, Austin Stowell as Josh might not have been the best choice. I don't want to badly criticize Austin, but most of the fandom expected a different Josh. They also kind of butchered josh's entire personality, and I was cringing so hard through the trailer at that. In the book, Josh is so grumpy, and one of Lucy's main aims is to get Josh to smile. The whole ...

In September, I finished the Off-Campus and Briar U series to wait for the arrival of The Legacy. The sister series have booked with a variety of tropes, so if you don't like a book, it's okay because you are likely to find at least one book that you end up loving.

September is gone, and Halloween month is here but before I get into spooky book recs, I am going, to sum up, all the books I read in September.   I started reading off-campus, thinking I would try to finish it off by the release, but after finishing it, I fell into this hole where I thought I was going into a reading slump, so trying to crawl back up the slump, I actually went into a reading spree.   1. THE OFF-CAMPUS and BRIAR U SERIES BY ELLE KENNEDY The first book series I finished in the first week of September is the Off-Campus/ Briar U series by Elle Kennedy. The Legacy, the ultimate ending to the Off-Campus series, was released on 21st September. Off-Campus has 5 books (including The Legacy), while its sister series Briar U has 4. It'd be one of those series of standalone where if you do not like a single book, you don't have to give up on the series because you will find another one with a trope you absolutely love. If you want the whole review on the Off-Ca...